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The Lords magnanimously avow that they stand by their privileges , and will use those privileges for their own especial benefit , without regard to consequences . The result of this must assuredly be , that the privileges will be taken away front them . You , on the contrary , wish them to disguise their feelV ings , and concede to the people on certain occasions wbe » popular agitation runs high . No sounder advice than ibit could ' be given to the Lords by their best friend , who might wish to preserve their privileges to them for the longest possible
time . Joseph Hume must reconsider this . - The loss of the Irish Corporation Bill is a trifle in itself ; time is lost certainly , but Ireland will get a better measure of justice in consequence . Public attention is meanwhile rivetted more firmly on the great canker of the state , — ( he Power with * out Responsibilityy- —the fountain-head of all minor abuses . The contest now is , not between the nation and the Lords , oh u question of legislation ; but between the nation and the legist lation , as to the form of the legislature itself . It is not * contest with the Upper House , but with both Houses .
" A plague on both your houses . " That plague is the want of responsibility , for the responsibility of the members of the Lower House is a farce , while the power of coercing them is left to the Lords , at whom U * a majority affect indignation , while really pleased at the coercioni And thus it will continue , until the people shall cease to eletJt members of the aristocracy- or those who look forward to
aristocratic connexions , as their representatives . Can any anfi with brains , one step in advance of a monkey , believe that < % man like Lord John Russell will ever set himself seriousl y to work to overturn a power possessed by his own family , ana ( ft which power he owes his present position—a position to which . his own personal qualities could never have raised him , and which now gives him undue advantages over many men of . fitP higher minds than his own ? Can any one believe that Lord Melbourne does not prefer taking his station by hereditary
right , to the process of contending for it b y personal , bodil y * and mental exertions , which to a man of his indolent habit * would be a positive painful inHiction ? Would the Lorelei Lansdowno or Palmerston ever have been known to the public ^ had they set out in life as John and Thomas , clerks lo tu * attorney , or in a public ofticti I It is useless to diaguiseUfcfe f * e& that the strongest friends of the irresponsible Lords arenU * be found amongst the responsible Commons , and do . efficient collision ib to be expected from them ; the people must C £ tt *» tq » handy-angry wovdi * with the Lords , and bestir theiiie * lv 4 k $ i ** 4 U * elht-ient nl turner where their e tier is may be made a \ aiUft )| g . i > Jk new eleotiogi must scmie day come , and then the <* aly > ie $ t > mrA 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 437, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/45/
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